The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-07

sion was finally ushered into existence on
the 1st, when Messrs. Cooley, Morrison,
Schoonmaker, Walker and Bragg visited
the Interior Department and took the usual
oath Of ofilce. Judge Cooley was selected
as chairman.
8. Fairchild, Of New York, Secretary Of the
Treasury, vice Manning, resigned, and Isaac
b. Maynard, Of New York, Assistant Sec
retary Of the Treasury.
The coinage Of the mints during the
month Of March was S. 195, ,906, of which
&3,0sa,3S0 was in standard silver dollars.
The Pension ONCE issued 1000 pension
certificates on the LIST. This is said to be the
largest lumber ever issued in one day by
the bureau.
the EAST.
Supervisor o. NJ. Bate, Of Gardiner, N.
r, has fed to Canada, after failing for
$4,000, and forging notes and other paper
to the amount Of $4,000. He has been en-
gagged in the cattle business.
Alta meeting Of the Irish Parliamentary
Fund Association in New York on the 29th
ult., Secretary Walters reported that the
fund on hand in the association treasury
was $4,000. 1t was resolved s'to hold the
dlnary aid is again needed to help the peo-
pie Of the Green Isle in their struggle for
constitutional self-government."
The Connecticut Senate, by vote Of 30
TO has passed the ten-hour law for women
and children, already passed by the House.
1t is the same as the Massach usetts law.
DR.. Ray Palmer, the celebrated hymnol-
ogist, died at Newark, N. j., ON the 30th ult.
An electrically lighted train, the first in
the United States, left Boston for New
York on the Both ult
1auaa n R1aino hoe oornr1ofod oil h;o
arrangements for European tour. He in
tends to sail in June and remain abroad for
over year.
An explosion of gas in the Won Storch
mine Of the Delaware & Hudson Canal
Company at Scranton, Pa, on the 30th ult.,
instantly killed two miners named Thomas
Lewis and Edward Owens
Betsy Cook, colored, living a few miles
from Brookhaven, Mass, on the 30th ult.
went to a field to work, leaving her three
small children to take care Of the house.
On her return she found the house in ashes
and her three children burned to death.
An incendiary fire at Port Byron, N. Y,
on the 30th ult. destroyed $4,000 worth of
property, including Armstrong Bros store
house, grocery and barn, Hopkins black
smith shop and the steeple of the Presby-
terian Church.
Clayton Meyer, q convict in the Western
Penitentiary, has made a sworn confession
that he was employed by unlicensed liquor
dealers to set fire to half dozen buildings
in Cochranton, Pa, in 1888, in revenge for
the action Of the temperance workers in de-
feating their license
The famous Dwight insurance litigation
was brought to an end on the 30th ult. by a
compromise between the insurance COM
panies holding policies on Dwight's life and
the benefciaries, whereby claims amount
ing to s105, 600 were satisfied on the payment
by the companies Of SIS, 900. Walton Dwight
died at Binghamton, N. Y, November Is,
1873 Policies on his life Of from 200 to
$4,000 each had been secured from all of
the prominent com panies, in all amounting
to $780, 200. The case was the most remark
able one known in insurance history, both
on account Of the large amount Of insurance
written ON his life, as well as on the long
litigation that followed his death over the
payment Of the policies.
A bill has been passed by the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature to make the National
Guard OF the State conform to the United
States army as far as possible. The Guard
is to consist of one hundred and fifty in.
fantry companies, five troops Of cavalry
and five batteries Of artillery. The amount
appropriated to maintain the militia the
next two years is 5000
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